Ultimate Public Bus Rides

[rdhopkins2]

You may have heard that there is a new Melbourne public bus route from Frankston to Melbourne Airport. This bus takes approximately 4hrs. Is this the longest public bus route in a metropolitan Australian city? Anyone taken a ride on this bus (preferably with an empty bladder)?

 

[IBleedBrownNGold]

I swear there are some buses in Geelong that like to amble. Not as long as 4 hours though!

 

[The BIG X]

You may have heard that there is a new Melbourne public bus route from Frankston to Melbourne Airport. This bus takes approximately 4hrs. Is this the longest public bus route in a metropolitan Australian city? Anyone taken a ride on this bus (preferably with an empty bladder)?

Cheap ride to the airport if you have plenty of time to kill.

Great scenic views as well

 

[Arkadia]

We could get Kramer to be the Bus Tour guide....

 

[Hodgepodge]

Does it have stops or is it a shuttlebus?

If it's an actual bus route with stops and all it would have to be the longest.

 

[rdhopkins2]

It is actually a real public bus with stops!!! For route map and timetable, check out http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/3185 Though I don't expect anyone would actually ride it all the way.

 

[bards]

Surely no one would ride it all the way. For the same ticket price you could get a bus to the station, a train to the city and get on the same bus route that left 3 hrd earlier and finish the trip. Good one for drivers. One trip one way, one the other, day done!

 

[The BIG X]

Surely no one would ride it all the way. For the same ticket price you could get a bus to the station, a train to the city and get on the same bus route that left 3 hrd earlier and finish the trip. Good one for drivers. One trip one way, one the other, day done!

Think the drivers have a compulsory (lunch) break between directions

 

[grizzlym]

At least it would be more comfortable than Deathstar, I mean Jetstar.

 

[Fevola99]

There was a story in the Frankston Leader a couple weeks back about some sad old local who took the bus the whole way for a day out, probably yapping at everyone who got on like Forrest Gump on the bench, except less interesting. She reckons people should stop whinging about how useless a four hour bus ride is because she enjoyed it, which doesn't mean anything since an airport route is not designed for enjoyment. She said she then got on another bus to Flinders St where she did what she called people watching, which I think means gawking at people who have a reason to live beyond making sure the cat gets fed. Those are the kind of people who will use it as a Frankston to Airport service, everyone else will just use it to get to the next suburb up or down like any other bus.

 

[Arkadia]

At least it would be more comfortable than Deathstar, I mean Jetstar.

Never flown Deathstar, I mean Jetstar, can't be all that bad.

 

[The BIG X]

Never flown Deathstar, I mean Jetstar, can't be all that bad.

Never again as far as I am concerned.

I said I have a broken back rest - you may go to another seat says the flight attendant - the plane seems full I reply - well that seat is better than standing all the way comes the reply.

Virgin to Tassie as far as I am concerned now.

 

[grizzlym]

Never again as far as I am concerned.

I said I have a broken back rest - you may go to another seat says the flight attendant - the plane seems full I reply - well that seat is better than standing all the way comes the reply.

Virgin to Tassie as far as I am concerned now.

Deathstar is shocking. Agreed. Imagine an international flight with 'em?

I've flown Aeroflot back when the Soviet Union was still vaguely a force - that was bad too.